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by lproven 5mo ago
> my hand gets sore 5 seconds after I start writing. Use a fountain pen. You can't press too hard: it bends and breaks the nib. Disposable ones are good enough now, e.g. the Pilot V-Pen. https://cultpens.com/products
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by lproven 5mo ago
More less why I built this, TBH. https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos
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by lproven 5mo ago
HP had several innovative GUIs of its own, before Microsoft destroyed the market with a good enough one of its own. NewWave was its first and long predated even Windows 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewWave HP was o
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by lproven 5mo ago
There were multiple ones, including some by BIOS vendors offered to many hardware OEMs. Hyperspace was one of the most widely-seen. https://gekk.info/articles/hyperspace.htm
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by lproven 5mo ago
Text article, instead of video, for other video-haters like me... https://gekk.info/articles/hp-quickweb.htm
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by lproven 5mo ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009 (220 comments)
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by lproven 5mo ago
BLISS is not a place, it is (was) a DEC programming language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS For all that DEC is nearly forgotten now, it had far more effect on modern computing than IBM ever did. DEC OSes are why
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by lproven 5mo ago
> 2.x ran on the 80286 in protected mode, the only OS I know which did that. SCO Xenix. Concurrent DOS/286. DR FlexOS. OS/2 1.x. Coherent 2 (IIRC).
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by lproven 5mo ago
WSL is the classic MS time-honoured manouevre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
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by lproven 5mo ago
Always remember: A leopard can't change his shorts. https://wiki.lspace.org/A_leopard_can%27t_change_his_shorts
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by lproven 5mo ago
This was news to me, so I went digging. « M-DOS During 1977 and 1978, Microsoft adapted both BASIC and Microsoft FORTRAN for an increasingly popular 8-bit operating system called CP/M. At the end of 1978, Gates and Allen
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by lproven 5mo ago
Sure, but you can't run your Linux containers in them. But you can on FreeBSD. Which was my point.
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by lproven 5mo ago
I wrote the article. My daily driver is a Xiaomi Poco F5. It is near the end of its life now -- struggles to last the day -- and it was stuffed with bloatware, but it was good for the price in 2023. My previous handset was an Umidigi F2 whi
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by lproven 5mo ago
> Are Xiaomi phones still legal in the EU Yes. I wrote the article. I use one. > with their proprietary chargers? Not true. It's a generic USB-C device. Does fast charge off any high-power charger, e.g. a Raspberry Pi one.
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by lproven 5mo ago
I wrote it. It is not about phone OSes. It is not about phone hardware. It is about phone VENDORS. The last paragraph should also explain this to you.
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by lproven 5mo ago
:-D Glad you liked it.
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by lproven 5mo ago
Agreed. Apparently the company worked on the Punkt phones.
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by lproven 5mo ago
I wrote TFA. Did you note the final paragraph, before the bootnote? Do please read it and act upon it: let me know.
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by lproven 5mo ago
> But what will my phone still actually be able to do if / when I stop my subscription? I have two of them and use one as my spare phone. I wrote this article. As far as I can tell: all that happens is that you lose your encrypted e
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by lproven 5mo ago
I wrote the article. Not that I am aware of, no. They are almost all Android devices which are available unlocked and with a different OS on from new. It is possible, but nobody's done it since Symbian.
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by lproven 5mo ago
Still maintained, still sold. https://www.lg.com/us/webos Could be revived if anyone could be bothered.
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by lproven 5mo ago
News just in. It happened in 2017. https://www.kaiostech.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS 2017 is also the year ChromeBooks first outsold Macs (by value, not units). 2017 was the Year of Linux
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by lproven 5mo ago
I wrote the article. I think you did not read it. Read the last paragraph in particular. Not the bootnote, in the main text.
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by lproven 5mo ago
> This article fails to mention GrapheneOS. No, it does not. I wrote the article. The article is not about phone OSes. The article is about companies that will sell you a NEW non-Google non-Apple smartphone . The article is not about ha
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by lproven 5mo ago
> in any US airport I've been to So that is half of 1%. Now try in any one of the other 194 countries in the world. I, sadly, live in a small island and fly a lot. I haven't been able to do this in years .
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by lproven 5mo ago
No, because Docker is a tool for running Linux containers. You can use the Linuxulator to run Linux binaries on FreeBSD, including entire distro userlands in Jails. You can use Podman to build and manage OCI containers with Docker-compatibl
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by lproven 5mo ago
It is not a Linux distro. It is not a Linux at all; it is a completely different, independent OS. It is not a Unix at all: it's an independent ground-up C++ OS that implements a lot of POSIX-type APIs to make it easier to port Unix app
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by lproven 5mo ago
Hey, that's my article. Thanks for sharing it! Here is some good practical info on the pros and cons of different de-Googled phone OSes: https://blog.gridranger.dev/mobile-oses-featuring-fairphone-...
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by lproven 5mo ago
> Windows 11's UI seems easier on the eyes than Haiku now. I feel the exact reverse. I find modern flat UIs ugly and hard to operate, which makes them more tiring. It is not just me: https://grumpy.website/
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by lproven 5mo ago
AFAIK only M1 -- but yes, it's a major achievement: AFAIK this is the first bare-metal Haiku on Arm.

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